Funding and Business Opportunities

Application Deadline: August 30th, 2021 The UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), in partnership with Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog (Govt. of

Application Deadline:  October 31, 2021. The Grinnell College Innovator for Social Justice Prize, or the Grinnell Prize, directly reflects Grinnell’s

Application Deadline: August 20, 2021 The Blockchain Bootcamp is designed to give early to mid-stage startups in Africa an opportunity

Application Deadline: 15 September 2021 Over 17 million tonnes of waste are generated by Sub-Saharan Africa annually, and only 12% of

Application Deadline: August 9th, 2021 Applications are now open for Paradigm Initiative’s annual Digital Rights Academy and Litigation Clinic 2021. The Digital Rights Academy

Application Deadline: September 10th 2021 The Young Journalist Award – in partnership with the UK Foreign Press Association – is Thomson Foundation’s annual journalism competition dedicated to

Application Deadline: August 1st, 2021. A 6-week programme to help small newsrooms leverage the power of artificial intelligence. This FREE online

Application Deadline:  30th July 2021. Rules Project nominations by 6th August 2021 Projects will be shortlisted by 13th August 2021

Application Deadline: August 31st, 2021 The YCA launches yet another exciting program to create continental flagships to accelerate youth empowerment

Application Deadline: August 31st, 2021 With the upcoming Challenge Call, GBE is looking for concrete solutions to address two specific

Application Deadline: August 31st, 2021 Nigeria, like the rest of the world, is dealing with a lot of problems. However,

Applications close Wednesday 15th September 2021 12PM BST Nesta Challenges is today announcing the launch of the Afri-Plastics Challenge (http://Afri-Plastics.Challenges.org). The

Application Deadline: August 29, 2021 Humanity faces unprecedented challenges. But nowhere else are we more resolved to solving those challenges,

Application Deadline: July 31st, 2021 The CGIAR Generating Evidence and New Directions for Equitable Results (GENDER) Platform, in collaboration with African

Application Deadline: August 4th, 2021 Building the gender-lens investing ecosystem for women climate entrepreneurs to grow scalable climate-related businesses in

Application Deadline:13 August 2021. Are you working on something that you think could reshape media or journalism in sub-Saharan? Do

Application Deadline: 29th August 2021 The accelerator program focuses on Blue economy startups from Africa tackling the greatest opportunities and

Application Deadline: 1st August 2021 Women remain underrepresented in leadership roles in media organisations despite a higher proportion of female

Wennovation Hub is in partnership with the Global SERS to support Nigeria businesses aiming to scale their companies across countries. The

The world’s largest global scaling programme for SDG-aligned ventures –Accelerate2030 launches its 4th Edition this year in  20+ locations: Mexico, Colombia,

Application Deadline: 23 July 2021, 11:59 PM, (UTC -11) The Climate Change Media Partnership (CCMP), led this year by Internews’ Earth Journalism

Application Deadline: July 25th 2021 Over the past years, LEAP Africa has partnered with Union Bank Nigeria, other corporate sponsors and development

Application Deadline: 5PM (BST), Thu 22 July 2021 The Global Short Docs Forum brings together 12 filmmakers selected from a global

Application Deadline: June 30th 2021 The Digital Energy Challenge for Start-ups will reward 5-8 start-ups every year for four years, for

Application Deadline: August 13th 2021 Launched in 2019, the Womenpreneur Pitch-a-ton Africa was the first women-in-business support initiative of its kind in